From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e5a48ab332277b89 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!g28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Gautier write-only Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: TIOBE index Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:03:21 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.122.158.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1268312601 30313 127.0.0.1 (11 Mar 2010 13:03:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:03:21 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=206.122.158.4; posting-account=gRqrnQkAAAAC_02ynnhqGk1VRQlve6ZG User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.89 Safari/532.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9516 Date: 2010-03-11T05:03:21-08:00 List-Id: > Did I miss something ? Yes I did! The request was: x+programming instead of: +"x programming" There are of course fewer results (except for MSN!) Google Google MSN / Bing Yahoo! Wiki- YouTube | Blogs | | -pedia | --------------------------------------------------- Pascal 97'100 1'388 25'200'000 341'000 87 27 Fortran 38'100 458 3'830'000 147'000 50 3 Ada 30'700 338 29'100'000 124'000 97 5 ... and the ranking, assuming Pascal is "correct", is Pascal 0.603% Fortran 0.218% (from 0.563%, way off!) Ada 0.369% (from 0.376%, very close) Probably a lesson of this story is that it is a very uncertain exercise. Gautier